Next up - a quicky. One of those films that briefly moves into Hong Kong for a minor part of the story whereas most of the film takes place elsewhere. In this case it's South Korea and The Suspect (용의자).
It's a 2013 film about a former North Korean soldier (Gong Yoo) who defects to the south in order to find out who killed his family. Working as a driver for a wealthy and well-known industrialist, he gets caught up in a murder plot and is deliberately accused of the killing in order to hide the true reason for the assassination. I've included it here because there is a small sub-plot involving a secret mission in Hong Kong that backfired and was the previous occasion when the two main protagonists met up on opposite sides of the mission.
Anyway, that main scene takes place on an abandoned ship in the middle of Victoria Harbour. Judging from things I would expect to see, I think the scene was shot using green screen with real footage of Hong Kong island in the background. The film definitely had some on-location camera work done, as you'll see in the following couple of posts but this key shot, perhaps with the exception of the close-ups (top two images), seem to be CGI.
If the close-ups were shot on-location (I honestly can't tell either way), then the angle on the buildings in the background suggest they were shot at the TST waterfront - close to the old KCR clocktower.
It's a 2013 film about a former North Korean soldier (Gong Yoo) who defects to the south in order to find out who killed his family. Working as a driver for a wealthy and well-known industrialist, he gets caught up in a murder plot and is deliberately accused of the killing in order to hide the true reason for the assassination. I've included it here because there is a small sub-plot involving a secret mission in Hong Kong that backfired and was the previous occasion when the two main protagonists met up on opposite sides of the mission.
Anyway, that main scene takes place on an abandoned ship in the middle of Victoria Harbour. Judging from things I would expect to see, I think the scene was shot using green screen with real footage of Hong Kong island in the background. The film definitely had some on-location camera work done, as you'll see in the following couple of posts but this key shot, perhaps with the exception of the close-ups (top two images), seem to be CGI.
If the close-ups were shot on-location (I honestly can't tell either way), then the angle on the buildings in the background suggest they were shot at the TST waterfront - close to the old KCR clocktower.
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